AWS Security Blog

We’re pleased to announce the availability of the latest sample security baseline from Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA)—the Universal Configuration. Developed from years of field experience with highly regulated customers including governments across the world, and in consultation with AWS Partners and industry experts, the Universal Configuration was built to help you implement security […]

Transfer across AWS Cloud partitions. Different identity planes. Long-lived IAM user credentials. As an enterprise customer, you might need to bring together security, operational, and compliance data from multiple AWS partitions. Creating a holistic view of these types of data is critical to support operations and applications but understanding how to accomplish this while maintaining […]

Certificates and the hierarchy of trust they create are the backbone of a secure infrastructure. AWS Private Certificate Authority is a highly available certificate authority (CA) that you can use to create private CA hierarchies, secure your applications and devices with private certificates, and manage certificate lifecycles. A certificate revocation list (CRL) is a file […]

Getting credentials for local development with AWS is now simpler and more secure. A new AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) command, aws login, lets you start building immediately after signing up for AWS without creating and managing long-term access keys. You use the same sign-in method you already use for the AWS Management Console. […]

Amazon Web Services has been designated as a critical third-party provider (CTPP) by the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) under the European Union’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). This designation is a key milestone in the EU’s implementation of DORA, which took effect in January 2025 and aims to strengthen the operational resilience of the EU […]

AWS Network Firewall now supports managed rules curated by AWS Partners—giving you pre-built threat intelligence and security controls that reduce the need to create and maintain your own rule sets. This new capability helps organizations strengthen their network security posture with continuously updated AWS partner managed protection. What are managed rules from AWS Marketplace for […]

The new threat landscape The line between cyber warfare and traditional kinetic operations is rapidly blurring. Recent investigations by Amazon threat intelligence teams have uncovered a new trend that they’re calling cyber-enabled kinetic targeting in which nation-state threat actors systematically use cyber operations to enable and enhance physical operations. Traditional cybersecurity frameworks often treat digital […]

Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon OpenSearch Service have launched a new dashboard that simplifies the analysis of AWS Network Firewall logs. Previously, in our blog post How to analyze AWS Network Firewall logs using Amazon OpenSearch Service we demonstrated the required services and steps to create an OpenSearch dashboard. The new dashboard removes these extra steps […]

AWS Systems Manager Session Manager is a fully managed service that provides secure, interactive, one-click access to your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, edge devices, and virtual machines (VMs) through a browser-based shell or AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), without requiring open inbound ports, bastion hosts, or SSH keys. Session Manager helps […]

Following our recent announcement of ML-DSA support in AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS), we just introduced post-quantum ML-DSA signature support in AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA). Customers can use AWS Private CA to create and manage their own private public key infrastructure (PKI) hierarchies. Through this integration, you can establish and use […]